60 Fun Facts About Destiny

Which studio developed Destiny?

It was the studio's first new console franchise since Halo.

On what date was Destiny released worldwide?

It launched on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One at once.

Destiny was the first game in the developer's ten-year agreement with which publisher?

Bungie separated from Activision in 2019 and now self-publishes.

How much did Destiny take at retail in its first five days?

That made it the biggest new-franchise launch of all time.

The developer prefers not to call Destiny an MMO. What term does it use?

Players are only matched with, and can only talk to, those the game pairs them with.

What are the player characters in Destiny called?

They protect Earth's last safe city using a power called Light.

What is the name of the white spherical celestial being hovering above the Last City?

Its arrival gave humanity a Golden Age before the Darkness caused the Collapse.

What is the name of the small flying AI companion that resurrects your Guardian?

Peter Dinklage voiced it in the base game before Nolan North took over.

Which actor originally voiced Ghost, before being replaced in 2015?

His delivery of one line about a wizard in the alpha was widely mocked as wooden.

Which line from the alpha drew heavy criticism of Ghost's original voice performance?

The developer later had Nolan North re-record every line of Ghost dialogue.

Who voices the Speaker in the original Destiny?

Lennie James is Lord Shaxx and Peter Stormare is Dead Orbit's Arach Jalaal.

Which of these is NOT one of Destiny's three Guardian classes?

Hunters are agile bounty hunters, Warlocks space magicians, Titans tanks.

Which three species can a Guardian be?

The choice is only cosmetic; Exo are human consciousness in a machine.

What is the Hunter Gunslinger's super, a flaming magnum with three shots?

Nova Bomb is the Warlock's, Fist of Havoc and Hammer of Sol the Titan's.

Which Titan super creates a protective shield bubble called Ward of Dawn?

Destiny 2 replaced Defender with Sentinel but kept the bubble as an option.

How many players make up a raid team in Destiny?

Raids are the only PvE activity allowing more than three in a fireteam.

Which was the first Destiny raid, set on Venus and ending with the boss Atheon?

Atheon, Time's Conflux, can fling Guardians into the past or future.

Which alien race are semi-organic androids that run endless simulations and manipulate time?

They have already converted Mercury into a machine world.

The Fallen, insectoid nomadic pirates, are also known by what name?

They are split into Houses, each led by a Kell, and once worshipped the Traveler as their Great Machine.

Which race is a military empire of gigantic amphibians dug in on Mars?

They rely on heavy armour, ballistic shields and jump packs.

The Hive gods Oryx and Xivu Arath and their sister were originally three siblings of which race?

They found three Worm Gods trapped in their planet's core.

Which 2015 expansion began Destiny's Year Two and added a third subclass to every class?

It also brought the Dreadnaught, a Hive ship in the rings of Saturn.

Which expansion introduced the technological plague SIVA and the Devil Splicers?

Released September 2016, it also added the Plaguelands and raised the Light cap to 400.

Where was most of Destiny's lore stored, readable only outside the game?

Destiny 2 moved lore into the game itself.

Which periodic PvP event lets players earn top loot and rotates modes like Control and Clash?

Trials of Osiris, added in House of Wolves, uses the Elimination mode instead.

What was the name of the exploit spot where enemies respawned fast enough to farm gear after launch?

Bungie patched it, but it became a symbol of the game's grind.

The developer fired its long-time composer in April 2014 after a dispute over an E3 trailer. Who was he?

He had written the eight-movement Music of the Spheres with Paul McCartney, and won a wrongful-dismissal suit in 2015.

Which former Beatle collaborated on Destiny's symphonic suite Music of the Spheres?

Activision was reluctant to release it as a standalone work.

Around how many players took part in Destiny's public beta in July 2014?

The alpha had been PS4-only the month before.

Which award did Destiny win at the 2014 British Academy Video Games Awards?

GamesRadar also named it 2014 Game of the Year.

What Metacritic score did the PS4 version of Destiny receive?

Bungie would have earned a $2.5 million bonus for a 90 or above.

Where is the social hub called the Tower located?

House of Wolves added the Vestian Outpost and Rise of Iron the Iron Temple.

Destiny 2 went free-to-play under what name in October 2019?

Only expansions and seasonal content required purchase from then on.

Which Cabal commander drains the Light in Destiny 2's Red War campaign?

The Traveler wakes and kills him at the campaign's end, restoring the Light.

The Forsaken expansion opens with the death of which beloved Hunter Vanguard?

He was voiced by Nathan Fillion; his killer was Uldren Sov, brother of Queen Mara.

Which actor voices Cayde-6?

He also voiced characters in Halo 3, ODST and Reach for Bungie.

Which actor voiced Commander Zavala from 2014 until his death in 2023?

He was also Cedric Daniels in The Wire and Charon in John Wick.

Which new enemy race of undead Fallen did Forsaken introduce?

They have the most aggressive AI in the game and never take cover.

What is the Destiny Vault, introduced in Year Four?

Introduced in Year Four, it removed the Red War, Curse of Osiris and Warmind at a stroke.

Which Darkness power, introduced on Europa in Beyond Light, became the fourth subclass?

Strand followed in Lightfall; Prismatic in The Final Shape combines Light and Darkness.

The Witch Queen expansion is set in whose Throne World?

She has stolen the Light for her Lucent Brood; the Traveler itself turned out to have resurrected her.

Lightfall's new destination, Neomuna, is on which planet?

Its inhabitants descend from a lost Golden Age expedition; Calus attacks it as a Disciple of the Witness.

The Final Shape, released 4 June 2024, concluded which storyline?

The Guardians pursue the Witness inside the Traveler itself, into the Pale Heart.

What was Excision, unlocked after the world's first clear of Salvation's Edge?

Players took on the Witness together for the final time.

Which subclass, letting players mix abilities from both cosmic powers, arrived with The Final Shape?

The expansion also introduced the Dread, the Witness's own soldiers and the first new race since 2018.

Which expansion, released December 2025, ended up as Destiny 2's tenth and final one?

The June 2026 Monument of Triumph update closed active development, though the game stays online.

Sony completed its acquisition of the studio in July 2022 for how much?

Bungie stayed a multi-platform studio and publisher.

Which revived-1990s extraction shooter underperformed, prompting a $765M impairment from Sony?

By May 2026 Bungie announced the end of live-service updates for Destiny 2 to focus on it.

Where was the developer founded in 1991?

Alex Seropian founded it and later brought in Jason Jones; the studio is now in Bellevue, Washington.

Which company acquired the developer in 2000, turning Halo into an Xbox launch title?

Bungie split off again in October 2007, leaving Halo behind.

What was the name of the mobile spin-off game released in August 2025, set in an alternate timeline?

It arrived as the mainline series was winding down.

Which vehicles do players ride around patrol zones, likened to Star Wars speeder bikes?

Ships handle interplanetary travel cutscenes instead.

Which PvP-with-PvE hybrid mode did Destiny 2 add in its second year, hosted by the Drifter?

Gambit Prime followed before the two were merged.

Under what code name did Bungie begin developing Destiny in 2010?

The studio had gone independent from Microsoft in 2007 but still owed it Halo: Reach; the game's engine kept the Tiger name.

Why did Destiny's developer choose Activision over Microsoft and Sony as publisher?

Both Microsoft and Sony would have required Bungie to hand over the intellectual property, which the studio called 'non-negotiable'.

Which lead writer left Bungie in 2013 after his story 'supercut' was rejected by Jason Jones?

Jones found the story too dense and linear, and the entire mission structure was rebuilt in the year before launch.

Which location was cut from Destiny in its 2013 restructuring, only to return in later games?

The Hive Dreadnaught and Osiris's temple on Mercury were also removed and later resurfaced in expansions and Destiny 2.

Bungie said the design of Destiny's Hunter class drew on Han Solo and which Western archetype?

Warlocks were pitched as 'space wizards' inspired by Jedi, Gandalf and Morpheus, while Titans borrowed from Master Chief and Stormtroopers.

Where was Destiny officially unveiled on February 20, 2013?

Concept art had already leaked the previous November; an alpha test followed exclusively on PS4 in June 2014.

Roughly how many registered players did Destiny have by November 2015?

That was up five million in three months; Activision said the game had shipped over $500 million to retailers on launch day.